Artifex launches a GPL-infringement suit against Palm

Posted Dec 8, 2009 9:44 UTC (Tue) by forthy (guest, #1525)
In reply to: Artifex launches a GPL-infringement suit against Palm by jamesh
Parent article: Artifex launches a GPL-infringement suit against Palm

I have no idea what they are complaining about. When I go to opensource.palm.com I can download the mupdf source tarball and the patches applied to it. I haven't bought a Palm Pre, so I don't know if the written offer to obtain source is GPL conforming, but the source itself is available.

Artifex launches a GPL-infringement suit against Palm

Posted Dec 8, 2009 23:57 UTC (Tue) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link]

The problem is that Palm have a PDF reader application based on the MuPDF library, and have not released the source code to that application.

That application is clearly a derivative work of the PDF library it is built on, so they would need to release the source code to that too in order to comply with the GPL (or take out a commercial license from Artifex).